It’s hard enough to get people to drink water instead of soda or juice in this day and age. For one Minnesota community, drinking water is not only an afterthought, but a potential health risk. According to InForum, a small town of 230 people called Leonard, MN, is considering...

Many people use collagen creams and supplements to battle the effects of aging on their skin. Some of these people also drink beer to relax after a long day at work. But what if you could drink beer and achieve the same effects as taking your collagen supplement? It’s...

For years, fennel pollen has been praised as one of the best spices that can be used in a recipe. Taken from the fennel herb, this seasoning is a favored ingredient of both professional chefs and home cooks. Now, those who have been wondering if they should buy fennel pollen have...

After three years of some of the worst droughts ever, the state of California is finding that what little drinking water it has left may not be safe. The state’s water resources control board reports that groundwater used for 772,883 residents is unsafe, due to longtime contamination from nitrates and...

Turning beer pink doesn’t make the alcoholic beverage any more appealing to women. While this may seem obvious to beer and non-beer drinkers alike, Molson Coors gave it a try anyway, launching the “Animee” brand in 2011. This brand offered three flavors of lightly sparkling beer — one of...

If you eat a lot of processed foods, you may not be the only one you’re harming. Processed foods are often stripped of natural vitamins and nutrients and injected with chemicals and modified to ensure longer shelf life. Genetic modification is also present in 80% of processed foods, but recent...

At what point is bad management more than just an annoyance? One employee at a Humble, Texas Whataburger says hermanager humiliated her in numerous ways during her employment here. Whitney Clark says that, while working there as a cook, her manager constantly belittled her for her weight, and then...

What is in your food? “Genetically modified organisms, more commonly called GMOs, are in a lot of food,” The Poughkeepise Journal reports. “That means many of the items available in a supermarket today — from soda to mayonnaise — contain an ingredient whose DNA, or genetic structure, has been changed by humans...

The Environmental Protection Agency is awarding about $860,000 to 14 different communities in an effort to reduce water pollution. These communities will use the funds to expand their green infrastructures, which will hopefully improve water quality while also increasing the communities’ resilience to the issues that created the global climate change...

Though million tons of plastic is produced every year yet only 3 percent of them is recycled. The remaining amount of plastic is either adrift in the ocean or trashed to degrade. It is said that more than 24,000 tons of plastic is eaten by fish every year in...